Only a week? Kick him out entirely. Archive: https://archive.today/j6nRH From the post: >>A Denver County Court judge violated ethics rules when he paid a defendant’s $1 bail during an August court hearing, an investigation by the Denver Judicial Discipline Commission found. Mayor Mike Johnston publicly censured Judge Barry Schwartz on Friday and ordered that the judge serve a one-week suspension without pay. The judge set a $1 bail for a defendant in a 2016 misdemeanor assault case when she appeared in court in August after failing to appear several times. When the woman’s attorney indicated that she did not have a dollar, Schwartz asked his court staff for cash. A staff member handed him a dollar, which he passed to the defense attorney, according to the public censure and video of the incident obtained by The Denver Post. “By personally facilitating the posting of bail for a defendant, the mayor finds that Judge Schwartz compromised the impartiality, integrity and independence of the judiciary,” the two-page censure reads. “Regardless of the bond amount, and although Judge Schwartz denies any favoritism towards the defense or antipathy to the prosecution, Judge Schwartz’s conduct openly favored the defendant in open court.”